Paperplay Challenges - 'Thanks A Bunch'

Hello all,

I have scheduled this post so I hope it posts successfully and on time!

Our theme this week on Paperplay is 'Thanks a Bunch' - this was about as close as I could get with my stash for this!  I have used some really old Papermania papers (Rose Garden I think), and part of my extensive collection of washi tape, along with an old LOTV stamp and a random sentiment that I stole from my Mum.  The image is coloured with Spectrum Noirs - don't ask me what colours as I have no idea and layered them over and over until I was happy with the shade of pink on her skirt!

 

That's all from me!

 

Katie

PaperPlay Challenges - 'Shine On'

Hello all

 

Rumour has it that I am starting to do a bit of DT work once more, I figured it was about time!  I decided to start off with my good friends at PaperPlay Challenges again, and this is my first project since being back with them.

 

The challenge for this week is 'Shine On' - should be an easy one for all you glitter and Glossy Accents fans!  I decided to interpret it a bit more literally and went for a ridiculously bright sunshine themed mini album.  The papers are again the We R Memory Keepers '72 and Sunny' collection.  The inside pages are also embellished but it was too difficult to photograph!  I thought I would never find a use for bright orange lace when I bought it, but it looks like I finally found one!

 

 

 

 

Make sure you come and play along with us!

 

Katie xxx

Butterfly Trinket Box...

Hello

 

I absolutely love making these little trinket boxes - I learnt the technique at a class that was held at  work.  The inner box is made using one piece of 12x12 paper and an origami folding technique.  For the outer box, I smiled sweetly at a member of our framing department, and got them to cut down some of their scrap hardboard to the right size.  I joined them all together with framing tape, which gives the lid it's flexibility, but is strong at the same time.

 

I finally cut into my DCWV Marisposa stack - it's hard to take the scissors to it, but what's the point in owning all this stuff if it's too 'nice' to use?  I finished it off with some WOC flowers.

 

I'm also entering this one into the Wild Orchid Crafts challenge - Anything goes.

 

Katie xxx

'Love Me' ....

 

Good Evening

 

Had a great time this evening making this box frame.  It's a cheap shadow box frame from Ikea, but it's absolutely ideal because you can put massive deep embellishments inside!

 

I used the 'Love Me' collection from My Mind's Eye - love it!  I also finally broke into my packet of Kraft core Coredinations... oh man.  It's too good to use on a card, it has to be used on permenant home decor items only!  More Wild Orchid flowers as per usual.

 

 

I am also entering this into this weeks Wild Orchid Crafts challenge - 'Anything Goes'.

Brave Girls...

Evening

 

A couple of years ago now (back when I was DTing for Simon Says Stamp), I bought (well, ordered) a massive Unity stamp set - the Brave Girls Club one, and never really used it.  I was having a play with some of Sheena's older stamps, painting directly onto the rubber with Twinkling H2Os and stamping onto old book pages, and I thought that the Brave Girls stamps just worked perfectly with the background.  I possibly used the wrong ink - the Memento didn't work that well over the painted areas, but I went over it with a black pen afterwards to sharpen it up.  I think that Archival might have worked better.

 

Right -bedtime for me.  Work tomorrow (groan)

 

Katie xx

The Heart Obsession Continues

Everyone knows that I am a little obsessed with hanging hearts - I buy them, admire them, make them.  Now that I'm also looking after the general craft side of purchasing at work, I also make sure that we stock lots of them!  This is a wooden heart that I picked up at work, which I've altered with a bit of help from my hot glue gun, and a LOT of Wild Orchid Flowers.  My stash is running dangerously low, I need to go and place another order swiftly!

 

Hope you like

 

Katie xxx

One more little Toread

Hello

 

Just one more little Toread sample to share - he's another little cutie!  I think he would also look cool with some crazily coloured hair, but for now I've modelled him on my boyfriend's colouring (it's how I imagine he looked as a child, ha ha ha).

 

The papers are really old ones from my stash - Papermania Hempstead but they are really lovely, and really go well with the woodland kind of feel that these guys bring.

 

The image is coloured with Spectrum Noir pens as per usual.

 

I hope you have all ordered yours?!

 

Katie xxx

Toreads release - tomorrow!

Hello all,

 

You'd have to have been living under a rock to not know about the Toreads release due out tomorrow.. They are so cute it's actually verging on ridiculous.

 

For this card I've coloured my image with Spectrum Noir pens (the only pen to be seen using these days), and simply layered it up with some yellow CoreD'inations cardstock, and some paper from the We R Memory Keepers '72 and Sunny' collection.  I love this little guy!  He would be great for a new arrival, or just to send to someone special :)

 

You'll be able to get them from tomorrow, either from the TV shows on Create and Craft,or from the Crafter's Companion website.

 

Have a good day!

 

Katie

New Swalk and Humphrey Samples

Good Evening all

As I have a demonstration at Luton next week I thought I had better throw together some samples to take with me.  Not bad for an afternoons work!  All the images have been coloured using the Spectrum Noir colouring system, stamped onto Neenah cardstock with Memento ink.  I've used a mixture of papers inclunding Prima Madeleine, The Scrap Cake, DCWV and Crafty Individuals.  All the background cardstock is by CoreD'inations, either the Tim Holtz, Gemstones or Vintage collection.

I loved these papers so much that I really didn't want to cover them up or cut them down - so I made some 8x8 card blanks using Centura Pearl cardstock stolen from my Mum...  I also used organza ribbon so that the papers could still be seen under the ribbon.

A mini notebook...

I also threw together a quick trinket box...

Right, that's it!  I'll be back later in the week with some Luminarte samples...

Katie xxx

A Mini Album

.................Hello

Yes, it's been a while.... however after lots of nagging from a certain Irish person I have finally decided to post on my blog..!!  It's been that long that I had forgotten my Blogger password and the format has completely changed.  I have to be honest, I'm struggling!  So hopefully it will look OK when I publish it :)

Firstly, here is a super quick wedding card I made to go along with the mini album that will follow.  I put so many hours into the album that I kind of ran out of steam for the card! So it's an extra speedy stamped card.  I used the new stamps that I bought in Alexandra Palace in London earlier this year - the butterfly set from Craftwork Cards.  I stamped it using various colours of Memento (I'd love to go and check the colours for you, but to be honest life is just too short), and then matted it onto Gemstone Coredinations cardstock, and added some flat back pearls to the bodies of the butterflies (another idea stolen from the said Irish person that has been bullying me into blogging again!)  I stamped a quick sentiment using a set from Hero Arts - Everyday Sayings.

Now onto the Mini Album.  This took FOREVER.  I made it as a wedding present for one of my closest college friends.  I facebook stalked her, stole lots of photos and ordered them to be printed, which was actually surprisingly more difficult than you would expect, as I wanted to put all of their trips into chronological order, however she didn't upload them in chronological order, and she also didn't necessarily upload them at the time that they were taken! So I did my best and tried to get clues from the dates of the comments, etc..  It was a headache.  I'm not a stalker, honest! Haha.

Anyway, as they had been to some quite exotic places, I used a paper collection that I have been hoarding for quite a while - Que Sera Sera by K & Co.  The colours are deep and rich, which was also a challenge for me as I am used to using pale, shabby hues.  I inked up everything using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and embellished with Prima flowers, Wild Orchid flowers, lace, pearls, pins, some postage stamps and some clips from the Follow Your Heart Collection from My Mind's Eye.  I also made some roses using the paper collection and a die from Marianne Designs.  I cut the lettering and swirls using my Big Shot and embellished using Glossy Accents.

 

I love this picture because we now all know that he had a ring in his pocket :)

Well, that's it! I shall try to be a better blogger from now on, but I'm not promising anything :)

Katie xxxxxxxxxxx